Jen Davis’ self-portraits are startlingly beautiful. It is a testament to the artist’s talent that the beauty and humanity in the work drowns out the antipathy we all harbor towards the overweight body.
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Jen Davis
Friday, November 16, 2012 · 6 Comments
Tags: Art
6 responses so far ↓
1 Sister Disco // Nov 17, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Love these too! Thanks for posting them.
~Lauren
2 suzanne // Nov 19, 2012 at 3:15 pm
These are beautiful. SO, so nice.
3 Val // Nov 25, 2012 at 2:13 pm
I think Ms. Davis’s work is meant to push the viewer into confrontation of their feelings about weight and overweight people. I get more of an uncomfortable feeling than anything else when I look at it. I think it’s partly because she has such a pained expression in many of the images.
4 Chuck // Nov 25, 2012 at 8:43 pm
I think she is cute.
5 Jesse Lu // Nov 25, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Wow… I took the liberty to run through all the work she has on her website. The psychological push of these works is impressive. I’m not quite sure what I feel when I look at them- desire, shame, lust, loneliness, closeness. There is a self-portrait of her in white undergarments on a blue duvet. Ugh! The composition of this photograph is incredible, and the light. I have to say, also, that she is a very interesting subject and it’s no wonder she chose to pursue self-portraits.
6 Kate // Nov 28, 2012 at 12:56 pm
she does look pained in many of these shots. as viewers we get an impression of the profound isolation the artist experiences on a daily basis. it says a lot that these photographs create feelings of sympathy when our society so rarely reacts that way to overweight people.
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